South Korea

DongGang International Photo Festival invites submissions for its 21st edition, to be held this year from 21 July – 24 September 2023 in Yeongwol, Korea. This year’s theme is ‘The Magical Unknowns’. One ‘Artist of the year’ will receive a solo exhibition at DIPF and be invited to the opening.

ACC is calling for experimental works of performance to be part of ACT Festival (10-19 November 2023). Local and international artists (individuals or teams of up to 3 people) are eligible to apply.

Wonju City of Literature offers an opportunity for one writer from another UNESCO city of literature to come for an 8 week residency (1 September – 31 October 2023) at Toji Cultural Centre. Applicants must have at least B2 level in English.

The Asia Culture Center (ACC) in Gwangju, Korea is seeking participants for its 2023 ACC Residency, which will take place over approximately six months from May – October 2023, with a showcase in November 2023. The reorganised 2023 programme is being carried out in conjunction with the ACC Sound Art Lab, which in 2023 is launching the project ‘Futures of Listening’ to research the sounds of Asia and Asian cities.

The Song of the Wind project in Wando, South Korea aims to connect sustainable fishing village practices, the marine ecosystem, conservation, arts, and the social economy with contemporary public art integral to the fishing village. Artists, ecological activists, and scholars of all disciplines whose work explores the theme of ‘marine ecosystem & seaweed farming’ are invited to apply for a residency of 1-3 months during May – June 2023 or September – November 2023.

Antikythera’s five-month speculative design-research Studio will run from February to June 2023. Studio Researchers from diverse professional backgrounds will take part in collaborative design briefs, theory seminars, and technical workshops to create projects contributing to a growing body of research building on the programme’s theme of ‘planetary computation’. Activities take place in Los Angeles, Mexico City and Seoul.

The Asia Culture Center (ACC) is calling for artists, creators, and researchers across the world to participate in the 2022 ACC Residency(ACC_R) programmes. The 2022 ACC Residency focuses on ‘the post-COVID-19 era and post-humanism’.

Bucheon City of Literature in South Korea are launching a residency programme of for writers, translators and cartoonists of comics and graphic novels. The residency is for writers and artists who live in member cities of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network or who have been recommended by the Creative Cites offices. It will run over 7 weeks.

DongGang International Photo Festival invites you to submit your work for its 20th edition, to be held this year from 22 July – 9 October 2022 in Yeongwol, South Korea. One artist or team will be awarded as Artist of the Year and invited to attend the opening of the festival.

The ACC_Research Fellow Programme 2022 welcomes domestic and foreign applicants who wish to conduct a research on Asian culture to broaden humanistic discourse and cultural horizons. This programme will run for between two and three months from 20 June – 31 October 2022.

Taepyung Salt Farm X LAMPLAB seeks artists to submit entries for the juried exhibition, ‘Art Like Salt.’ The winners will be chosen to participate in a residency program in Shinan, designated a ‘Slow City’, in South Jeolla Province, South Korea, with the opportunity to create work in any of the following formats: photography, video, installation, sculpture, or sound. The theme for 2022 is ‘The Open World, and Beyond’.